Posts in category Salad

Quinoa Black Bean Salad
If you need an excuse for a picnic, this quinoa black bean salad might just be it. Highly portable, delicious, and easy to eat with a spoon, it asks to be taken to the park or the beach along with some cold chicken or fruit. Or, think about which [...]

It’s that time of the year again. The time when holiday foods beg to be honored, and hard to resist traditions like latkes, sweet potato delights, pumpkin pie, apple crisp, buttery mashed potatoes and the usual variety of noshes and nibbles fill our tables. The time to [...]

Summertime brings gloriously sweet juicy watermelon that occasionally calls out for more than being slurped up in giant wedges by the pool. My favorite thing to make other than watermelon gazpacho is a Watermelon Feta Salad. The feta cheese contrasts beautifully against the sweetness of the melon and mint adds a refreshing touch. This is by [...]

This low-calorie gluten-free messy tangle of slippery noodles and ribbons of vegetables practically asks to be slurped up with chop sticks! It is flavored with a hint of sweet salty dressing and spice, just the right combo for a light lunch or dinner on a hot summer day. It travels well to sidelines of any of your children’s sport events th [...]

Simple Caesar Salad
Here is a quick simple Caesar salad, with lower fat dressing, no eggs, and loads of flavor. I don’t love most restaurant’s cesar salads, usually cloaked in heavy rich dressing and topped with hard croutons that could knock your fillings loose, and then smothered with more cheese, forcing you to dig away under s [...]

I am just going to admit that I really dislike plain undercooked vegetables. I know they supposedly are better for you, retaining more vitamins and all, but really, how many vitamins can you loose by cooking them a little longer until they are soft to the bite instead of crunchy chewy crispy as in “tender crisp”? It can [...]

Blood oranges make their appearance for only a short time each year, it seems they come and go from Farmer’s markets and Trader Joe’s within a matter of weeks. I try and remember to buy extra, but never do. Gourmet son (that would be the one who asked for a goat cheese, tomato and olive oil sandwich in third grade), who saw me c [...]

Traditionally it is good luck in some places to begin the New Year with lentils – in Italian folklore green lentils look like money, or coins, and even though money is not the only thing one hopes for in each New Year, it can’t hurt to cook up some lentils sometime early in January just for good measure.
Unfortunately I have not come across [...]

I have a soft spot for fennel. I love its crunchiness, and the subtle flavor of anise. It pairs well with orange, and this salad gets some extra color and tang from fresh cranberries. I can’t resist the beautiful cranberries in the market, and love finding ways to use them that go beyond cranberry sauce. With the cranberry bread from couple [...]

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